All the cultures or civilizations past or present that we know of count the days and months in the same way - dividing the year into 12 months or a week into 7 days. Can you tell me any exception to this? And can anyone point me to some web resources which describe the history of adopting this system by the modern civilization?
2006-12-09 02:23:05 · 3 answers · asked by Moz 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
The Mayans, for one, did not count the days the way we currently do. Also, the Mayan calendar is still being calculated. The link below, the first one, takes you to the Mayan calendar.
The second link will take you to history of the western, or modern, calendar.
Great question...good luck.
2006-12-09 03:10:26 · answer #1 · answered by aidan402 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Ethiopian (and Coptic) calendar has 13 months, 12 with 30 days each, and an intercalary month at the end of the year with five or six days, depending whether the year is a leap year or not so they are still in the year 1992.
2006-12-09 11:55:38 · answer #2 · answered by Tharu 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Romans originally counted 10 months - hence October, '8th month'. November, '9th month' and December, '10th month'. This was reformed by the Julian calendar however, and 12 months adopted with two new months, July, 'Julius' and August, 'Augustus'
2006-12-09 11:49:52 · answer #3 · answered by rdenig_male 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋